HiYa

In article <bkoutj$3vj7p$1@ID-141600.news.uni-berlin.de>, "mr.sumo snr." 
<mr_sumo@hotmail.com> wrote:
>"obakesan" <cjundieseastwd@powerup.com.au> wrote in message
>news:bko80p$cbf$1@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au...
>> HiYa
>>
>> I'm thinking of getting a IBM s30, but not sure on how it'll cope with
>booting
>> from a PCMCIA CD-ROM. Anyone out there have one of these and know if the
>bios
>> will cope with it?
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>Couldn't actually find an IBM s30 at either the Japanese or US website - so
>I presume you meant the x30 or something like that.  Anyway, I guess you'll
>talking about a slim notebook that doesn't come with a cd-rom drive

I mean the s30, they came out about mid 2001 IIRC, if you go to product 
information under support, you can select it from the downloads

here is a link

http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4X2GYN

they really are a sweet looking laptop, and when they came out, were quite 
a neat portable with the speedstep cpu had outstanding battery life too




>included.
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>I have one of the Sony C1 picturebooks, which of course don't have cd-rom
>drive.  In the handbook it stated that the device would only 'PCMCIA' boot
>from a dedicated Sony external cd-rom, which I duly bought, and yes it does!
>So you can use the supply recovery discs ONLY if you also buy a Sony-budged
>PCMCIA cd-rom drive - great marketing strategy!  I don't know if it will
>'boot' from any other branded external drives - I have a very old Pioneer
>external drive but it wouldn't read that upon boot-up, only when within
>Windows.
>
>So I guess you could probably effect a similar solution by buying an IBM
>branded external drive.  But if that's the case then you might as well buy
>the docking station instead.  I'm assuming that perhaps you want to totally
>wipe the Japanese partition and install English Windows only.


ok, but I think the IBM drive, is USB  not sure if that'll boot from a usb 
device ... and yep, I wanna wipe the partition totally and start again with
my disks :-)

who knows, may even wish to ferret about with Linux on it ... 
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See Ya
(when bandwidth gets better ;-)

Chris Eastwood

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I think this is something we inherit from our parents

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